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Behavioral Economics Association (BEAF)

Behavioral Economics and Finance Association at Brandeis

Mission

BEAF aims to better understand the cognitive reasoning that influences businesses, financial markets and global economic behavior, and thereby prepare its members to excel in the international workforce.

Behavioral economics and finance is about the unseen drivers of financial markets and the greater global economy. The club aims to better understand the cognitive reasoning that influences businesses, financial markets and global economic behavior, and thereby prepares its members to excel in the international workforce. Our interests involve exploring principles of behavioral economics and finance to understand how behavioral, psychological and social phenomena can influence market forces. The club is open to both graduate and undergraduate students.

Our objectives include:

Figuring out how and why people make the decisions they do and how these decisions affect the greater global economy and financial markets